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![Crowds in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) can be seen next to the General Post Office showing damage from shelling following the Easter Uprising [bbc.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/easterRising.jpg)
On this day in 1916, revolutionary Irish Republicans initiated the Easter Rising, proclaiming an Irish Republic independent of British rule and battling with the British Army for six days. Sixteen Rising leaders were executed.
Image: Crowds in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) can be seen next to the General Post Office showing damage from shelling following the Easter Uprising [bbc.com]
![Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses strikers in Paterson, NJ in 1913 [jacobin.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/elizabethFlynn.jpg)
On this day in 1952, communist labor leader and feminist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who had been arrested under the Smith Act, issued a statement to the court, denouncing anti-communist hysteria and pleading for a fair trial.
Image: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses strikers in Paterson, NJ in 1913 [jacobin.com]
![A photograph of Johanna Kirchner, unknown location and year [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/johannaKirchner.jpg)
Johanna Kirchner, born on this day in 1889, was a German anti-fascist and Social Democrat who was executed by the Nazis for having "treasonably rooted herself in the evilest Marxist high-treason propaganda".
Image: A photograph of Johanna Kirchner, unknown location and year [Wikipedia]
Mumia Abu-Jamal, born on this day in 1954, is a radical political activist and prison journalist who was targeted by COINTELPRO and sentenced to death in a widely condemned 1982 trial. His work can be found on Prison Radio.
![A large crowd standing outside the collapsed Rana Plaza building Munir Uz Zaman/Agence [NYTimes]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/ranaPlazaCollapse.jpg)
On this day in 2013, the Rana Plaza, an eight-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh containing multiple garment factories, collapsed, killing 1,134 people in the deadliest garment factory disaster in history.
Image: A large crowd standing outside the collapsed Rana Plaza building Munir Uz Zaman/Agence [NYTimes]